Thesaurus results for LOPPING

lopping

verb

present participle of lop

as in pruning

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States can help by pruning occupational licensing requirements and making credentials modular and stackable, so short qualifications add up into longer ones.

— Eric Kutcher, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
It’s been a dynamic year with a varied complexion of transactions, from mega-mergers to portfolio pruning through corporate divestitures.

— Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of pruning

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Rather than trimming that weight, Fukushima's lab asked whether anything needed to be worn at all.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2026
Spectator interference became the ruling, and Volpe was awarded an RBI double that scored Lombard from first base, trimming Tampa Bay's lead to 4-3.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of trimming

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Gen Z Wants to Go Ghost, Not Girlboss That said, the characters do have to be worth clipping, and love him or hate him, Ryan Murphy has always had a knack for creating fictional people who feel bigger than whatever nonsensical story spawned them.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026
The sequence stylistically excises itself from the episode as though clipping it, anticipating its excision from the show when uploaded to a video-sharing platform.

— Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of clipping

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Has the time come for the Dodgers to consider curtailing his pitching?

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
The latest move by Taipei — a central node in global semiconductor manufacturing — is a significant step in curtailing black market sales to Chinese companies seeking to bypass US curbs.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of curtailing

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Since their debut in 1986, American Girl has shrunk their historical line significantly–including paring down the traditional six-book set for each historical character into two streamlined texts.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
Boeing shares were up as much as 3% in premarket trading before paring back some of those gains.

— Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of paring

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The photo editing tools are also limited to basic actions like cropping and rotating.

— Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026
Meta released its Content Seal AI watermark recently, but Reuters found that simply cropping the images a bit would often eliminate the watermark.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026

Definition of cropping

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Unfortunately, in a mounting number of cases these bots or agents have engaged in harmful behaviors their designers say go far beyond the instructions given to them, such as hacking into a rival company or government computer system.

— Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2026
Companies in Japan and South Korea were hit with major cyberattacks, exposing millions of customer records and feeding fears that AI may be turbo-charging hacking efforts.

— Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of hacking

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Across the fashion week map this season, chic showgoers made slouchy leather jackets the crux of their street style looks, while models nipping between casting calls threw their own bikers over basics on the run.

— Christina Holevas, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026
This is an issue that, to my mind, keeps nipping at the heels of the current crop of directorial It Boys.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026

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